Toonjam88

I think this is just final checks and looking at old sponsorship deals and revenues to get a good understanding of the business. I don't think it will be along process to look at these. These were probably asked for weeks ago and if they are looking at these then it's currently the end game of due diligence. It might be me being to positive but I have a feeling something positive will come out this week.

Never heard of him unless we're talking about him off 8 out of 10 cats

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/newcastles-rafa-benitez-sounds-relegation-11544371 Absolutely pointless article with absolutely nothing in it to say Ashley would still be owner in January. I can't believe they are allowed to call themselves journalists.

Technically she probably isn't buying us it's not her money it will be a rich arabs.

look like you I wouldn't believe some random daft fucker on a forum but just wanted to pass on what I was told. To be honest I knew I would get grief but I also knew that I would like to hear things that kept my hope that one day the Fat Controller would leave our club and we will back up where I believe we belong.

Plus I wasnt a member of this forum then. I have always read this forum but never posted. Only very recently joined.

Thing is with our local press they have admitted on Twitter (well Douglas has) about holding things back because they have been asked too. They are desperate to have a link to the club like they had during the Shepherd and Hall era. They could know and have been asked not to say anything. He has honestly heard this at the training ground. Last thing he told me was that Staveley was at the ground and that was the night before it all came out that she had visited St James park for talks (it was a Tuesday and some London paper ran the Story the next day) so I am holding out hope. If she has been at the ground etc, and it is a big if as it is third hand info, then she has taken more interest in the club the last 3 weeks than Ashley has in 10 years and that can only be a huge positive. It's amazing how people only ever say this stuff afterwards. I have proof check out my twitter solanosfreekick you can see I tweeted about it before it came out.

Thing is with our local press they have admitted on Twitter (well Douglas has) about holding things back because they have been asked too. They are desperate to have a link to the club like they had during the Shepherd and Hall era. They could know and have been asked not to say anything. He has honestly heard this at the training ground. Last thing he told me was that Staveley was at the ground and that was the night before it all came out that she had visited St James park for talks (it was a Tuesday and some London paper ran the Story the next day) so I am holding out hope. If she has been at the ground etc, and it is a big if as it is third hand info, then she has taken more interest in the club the last 3 weeks than Ashley has in 10 years and that can only be a huge positive.

She was born in Ripon. Don't think she lives there like. Who's window have I been staring through for the last 3 weeks then

she obviously dresses up as Peter Beardsley. That makes sense now why the U23s are doing shit it's actually Staveley and she has Beardsley locked in a cupboard at her home.

Ok I will bring my ball back now.

Tell you what you just throw something out that you have heard and you get dogs abuse. At least I didn't add on that it was going to be announced on the London Stock Exchange tomorrow morning by Staveley in a full toon strip.

That's what I thought surely if she was there on a regular basis then the journalists would pick it up. Not sure but he has told me stuff before that turned out true so just got my fingers crossed. I think she lives in Ripon as well so not that far away.

My mate has his son at the academy and he was there last night and the talk around there is that the takeover is still on track to be done before xmas and that apparently Staveley is at the ground and the training ground quite often. Fingers crossed its true.

No news is good news for me I think it will be ticking along nicely. If anything was up or it was about to fall through you would hear about it as Ashley would stick out some PR thing to try and force other parties hands. I personally think everything is agreed in regards to price. I think currently they are crossing the I's and dotting the T's as they will not want to announce anything until they are 100% complete with all their checks. They are a professional business who will do things correctly not like Mike Ashley they won't want to announce anything and then be embarrassed by something coming out from their final checks. You will find local papers trying to second guess whats going on or trying to sensationalise stories, such as the Shields Gazette. They are running a story with the first line in bold saying time is running out for takeover to be complete before January. You then read it and it has nothing new to even suggest that s the case. You had the Chronicle the other week saying that PCP hadn't contacted the premier league about going through their checks and that this can take weeks. But then in the same article they say that the premier league has turned down over 20 new potential owners that no one knows of. Well if that's the case how the fuck to a tin pot local paper know that PCP haven't already started the ball rolling with the premier league. No fucker knows, including myself but I just have a feeling it will all of a sudden be announced that we have been sold. Then hopefully the party begins

They could be waiting for ratification from the Premier League.

I thought they were singing his name as he was coming on then I saw Perez head pop up from the dugout.

I'm not criticising Rafa far from it without him here we would be in a much worse poisition. I just couldn't understand taking Joselu off and replacing him with Perez. I thought it played into their hands a bit. We are all human even Rafa. I think he has been getting 110% out of the current squad of players but even Rafa isn't a magician and without investment in January I think we will struggle. Only way I see investment happening is if Ashley is gone.

We were going route one before Joselu went off. I just couldn't understand sticking 2 small blokes up front with the subs. Mitro was ideal for this game to come on. It was a terrible game between 2 terrible teams today. First half they were there for the taking. We need this takeover to happen otherwise we are in deep shit.

She isn't in the Fat Hippo having a burger like so might not be coming.

What we need is a Staveley showing at the match today to get the whole excitement going again. I will take me binoculars today and keep look out.

You would hope we will hear something more in the next week or so otherwise I cant see it being done for January as they have to get everything agreed by the Premier League. Saying that I have absolutely no clue as to how these things work.

My journo mate from Oman told me this like a week ago. I posted it somewhere here too. Ol' Mick Martin is slow Which paper does he work for? The Beano

Is he the manager at South Shields at the minute? I thought he just played.

I agree. It's been a long time coming and I just hope it does happen.